Morality and Abstract Thinking – How Africans may differ from Westerners

TigerTank77 · 09:59 AM

Removed website link. Not factual source.

Anyone happen to catch this?

I expected it to be a lot of racist bullshit, but it's actually fascinating as hell.

Thoughts?

Henry Tyrell

I apologize, but I can't take any article seriously when it comes from a blog that has an article entitled "the dangers of diversity" enshrined at the top.

The Goblins Blade

It just Far right, Racist bollocks. Diversity is dangerouse? Now come on.

dr2005

I think this said it all about the mindset of that particular blogger:

Quote:

Originally Posted by whitelocust

Its called an IQ test, or just walk down to the ghetto and take a look around. “But there are a large portion of white Americans that are just the same way,” this does not excuse away the non whites just because some whites also behave in this manner, we have enough of our own to deal with, why import more?

Frankly, if that isn't bare-faced ignorance on a multitude of levels I don't know what is.

Moving onto the article referred to, the first bit which stood out was the line, "What follow are not scientific findings. There could be alternative explanations for what I have observed, but my conclusions are drawn from more than 30 years of living among Africans." Now, call me a little harsh if you like, but I would hope that the empirical support for the claims being made would be better than anecdotal evidence. It also calls upon the reader to accept far too many generalisations for my liking - for example, the notion that black people are incapable of abstract thinking (which I can think of a number of examples to demolish), or that they all perform in a uniformly below-average manner in academic disciplines (again, I can think of a number of examples to demolish this as well). I feel the author is guilty of intellectual laziness, as demonstrated by this among others:

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Originally Posted by Gedhalia Braun

White rule in South Africa ended in 1994. It was about ten years later that power outages began, which eventually reached crisis proportions. The principle reason for this is simply lack of maintenance on the generating equipment.

The Wikipedia article on Eskom and the power shortages would appear to debunk this claim. Maintenance has never been cited as an issue, and in any event requires very little forward planning in my experience in the electrical industry. It's a year at most for HV equipment. Also, the claim that white people don't litter as much is laughable - the only reason we don't notice is we have better infrastructure to take care of it, which is down to having more money to spend on it in the first place. Indeed, socioeconomic factors outside of ethnicity appear to have been completely ignored by the author, which makes this sound less like an objective analysis and evaluation and more like a rant.

So no, I'm not very impressed by it at all.

TigerTank77

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Originally Posted by Rosana

I apologize, but I can't take any article seriously when it comes from a blog that has an article entitled "the dangers of diversity" enshrined at the top.

I did not even see that. Whoops. Maybe I should have looked closer at this first haha.

TigerTank77

Mods, do me a favor and lock this? Or show it off, prime example of why one should not read articles and post about them on 3 hours of sleep.

Coexist.

We do have a sticky about sources.

However, I think this is a great example. Did you look at the website? It's bordering a white supremacist website. It's pretty awful.

BDF

lol

I had to troll at the bottom of the article:

"Hitler is sucking Satan's dick in hell"

Couldn't refrain. So immature and so funny. I eagerly await their responses. What a crack of shit, they should have wiped harder.

BDF

Where's Guile disappeared to?

lol

Maverick.

I'd think it would be best to lock this thread. The link/content doesn't seem to be factual/informal and it's just seems to be foolishness.